Samer Kalaf

Von Miller's six-game suspension, handed down last month, was something of a puzzler, given that he reportedly hadn't produced a positive drug test. This morning, however, Adam Schefter and Chris Mortensen uncovered new details about Miller's case that explain the length of the ban.

Broncos linebacker Von Miller is facing a six-game suspension, according to ESPN. How does a player …
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According to the report, Miller had tried—and failed—to persuade his urine collector to collect a different sample. From ESPN:

Sources said the collector worked in Miami, where Miller spends offseason time, and the collector reveled in knowing the Broncos linebacker while being, according to a source, "star struck." It led, sources said, to the collector's willingness to substitute another person's urine specimen for Miller. It might have worked, sources said, had a second collector not discovered that Miller was not in the city where his collection was supposed to have taken place.